Speech at the PDC last week

It looks like Rob and Philipp’s session at the PDC was a success. Here are a couple blogs I found that discussed what attendees were able to see:

Speech recognition and synthesis in Windows Vista posted on The OSNN PDC '05 Blog:

In Robert's first demo, he showed us how it's now possible to control the entire Windows UI using just speech. He was able to change his desktop wallpaper, open applications and dictate text to them, and even navigate through a MSN Virtual Earth map without touching his keyboard or mouse. It was clear that the speech recognition engine in Vista is already miles ahead of what it currently is in XP, and there's still almost a year for them to improve upon it.

PDC Last Day posted on Ramblings:

Wow, they’ve really improved both speech synth and recognition in Vista. I was quite excited about a lot of the new functionality, so I asked whether it was going to be available to non-.NET people and was told “Go check out SAPI 5.0 — it’s in there.” Wahoo! Quite awesome stuff.